Likes the Same Food

Likes the Same Food

¶ The same "yesterday, today and forever" is the kind of food preferred
by this type. He seldom orders anything new. The tried and true things
he has eaten for twenty-five years are his favorites and it is almost
impossible to win him away from them. "I have had bread and milk for
supper every Sunday night for thirty years," a bony man said to us not
long ago.


Means What He Says

¶ The Osseous does not flatter and seldom praises. Even when he would
like to, the words do not come easily. But when he does give you a
compliment you may know he means it. He is incisive and specific--a
little too much so to grace modern social intercourse where so much is
froth.


A Man of Few Words

¶ A man of few words is always and invariably a man whose bones are
large for his body. The fat man uses up a great many pleasant, suave,
merry, harmless words; the Thoracic inundates you with conversation; the
Muscular argues, declares and states; but the Osseous alone is sparing
of his words.


The Hoarder

¶ Bony people are never lavish with anything. They do not waste anything
nor throw anything away. These are the people who save things and store
them away for years against the day when they may find some use for
them. When they do part with them it is always to pass them on "where
they will do some one some good."


Careful of Money

¶ You never saw a stingy fat man in your life. Imagine a
two-hundred-pound miser! Neither have you ever seen a really stingy man
who was red-faced and high-chested. Nor have you ever found a real
Muscular who was a "tightwad."

But you have known some people who were pretty close with their money.
And every one of them was inclined to boniness.


When He is Poor

¶ Bony men are seldom "broke" for they are more careful of expenditures
than any other type. Even when they receive small salaries this type of
person always has something laid by. But the extreme Osseous never makes
a million. The same caution which prevents his spending much money also
prevents the plunges that make big money.

¶ The Osseous cares more for money than any one else. This is what has
enabled him, when combined with some other type, to be so successful in
banking--a business where you risk the other man's money, not your own.

The extreme Osseous is never lax or extravagant with his money no matter
how much he has. He never believes in paying any more for a thing than
is necessary. Take note of the men who carry purses for silver instead
of letting their change lie loose in their pockets. They are bony every
time! Fat people and florid people are the ones who let their greenbacks
fall on the floor while paying the cashier!


Fear of the Future

¶ "The rainy day" doesn't worry the fat people or the florid ones, but
it is seldom out of the consciousness of the bony men and women. So they
cling to their twenty-dollar-a-week clerkships for years because they
are afraid to tackle anything entailing risk.


Pays His Bills

¶ "I had rather trust a bony man than any other kind," is what the
credit experts have told us. "Other things being equal, he is the most
reliable type in money matters, and pays his bills more promptly."

¶ The bony man is one who seldom approaches the credit man, however. He
usually has enough to get the few things he really wants and if not he
waits till he has.

Extremely bony husbands give their wives smaller allowances in
proportion to their total income than any other type, and because they
are systematic themselves they are more likely to ask for reports and
itemizations as to where it goes.

The fat husbands and the florid husbands are the ones who give their
wives their last cent and never ask what becomes of it.


The Repressed Man

¶ The Osseous man or woman is always somewhat repressed. Unlike the
Thoracic, who uncorks and bubbles like a champagne bottle, he keeps the
lid on his feelings.

Bony people are always more reticent than others. They invariably tell
less of their private or personal affairs. One may live across the hall
from a bony man for years without knowing much about him. He is as
secretive as the Thoracic is confiding and as guarded as the Alimentive
is naive.